Your next role in law, from articling to partnership

About Side Door Law: Side Door Law is a virtual, flat fee legal practice serving British Columbia and Ontario, with family and immigration law at our core and six more practice areas alongside them. We set our prices up front, so clients always know the cost before we begin. Our model is deliberate. Revenue from our flat fee and corporate work helps fund sliding scale and pro bono services, which means every paying client helps keep the door open for someone who could not otherwise afford a lawyer. That is the idea behind our name: when the front door is closed, we are the side door. Please read this first: this is not an open articling position: We want to be completely honest with you from the very first line, because that honesty is the whole reason this posting exists. This is not an open articling position. We are not able to hire an articling student today. We are inviting you to join a roster so that we can contact you the moment we can. In both British Columbia and Ontario, an articling student must be supervised by a qualified principal. We will only open articling positions once we have volunteer lawyers who are qualified and willing to serve as articling principals. Until that is in place, we cannot responsibly take on an articled student, and we would rather say so plainly than post a role we cannot yet deliver. Why we are posting now: Training and hiring articling students is one of our long term goals, and we are building toward it in earnest. We are opening this roster today so that the moment supervision is in place, we can move quickly. The people who believed in this early are the first ones we will call. Who should join the roster: This is for you if you are a future or current articling candidate who wants a mission driven start. In particular, we would love to hear from: People who want to article with an access to justice focused practice. People comfortable with remote work across British Columbia or Ontario. People interested in family law, immigration, or general practice at a flat fee firm. What joining means: Joining is simple and low pressure. Here is exactly what it does and does not mean: You are added to our articling roster and contacted first when a supervised position opens. There is no obligation on either side, and no fixed timeline we can promise yet. We will keep you honestly informed about where things stand, good news or not. Are you a lawyer who could supervise? The fastest way to turn coming soon into open is more qualified principals. If you are a lawyer in British Columbia or Ontario who could supervise an articling student, we would love to hear from you. Every principal who steps forward brings a real articling seat closer to reality, and helps us keep our promise to everyone on this roster.